Comments on: Everything you know about CSS is wrong – orly?

By: Sugar

Sugar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:33:17 +0000

@John

I cannot accept holy-grail methods.

What’s fun (and terrifying) about CSS is that there is no absolutely correct way to do things.

It’s all very fluid. You evolve as a designer and your code evolves too.

I’m sorry, but all this table properties stuff sounds scary to me. I wouldn’t like to go back to sites all-designed-the-same-way.

I guess I’ll never be the same after reading Transcending CSS.

By: John Tsevdos

John Tsevdos — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:39:21 +0000

I saw the book as well sugar, and of course i read Sitepoint's article The Problem with CSS is ..., and I have to say I'm a bit confused as well... And it's not only Sitepoint, Digital Web Magazine posted a similar article explaining this new technique... It's vital to write here, that CSS table-related display properties work only on IE8 and the other major browsers (FF, Opera, Safari, etc.) but not IE7 which makes the technique a bit useless at the moment... Maybe in few years (when IE9/10 is ready)...

By: Madvil

Madvil — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:30:33 +0000

Sounds like the title is definitely over-bloating. Evolution in web design lies at building upon the existing fundamentals. Surely things will never stay frozen and the same : Just take a look at when the last HTML version was out and think for a while if that was good or not.

They only want us to start hunting a carrot down the road, and for some reason everyone has a different carrot.